Wall-bed.



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WALL BED.

APPLIOATION FILED APB.12, 1910.

Patented Mar. 28, 1911 1 1 1 1 11 1 11 11.1 1 .1 1 .1 1 111 1 111 111 1v 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 11 1 11 11 1 11 1 1 1 1111 11 1 11 11 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 11 11 1 1 1 1 1 11111 1 11111111-11111111 1 1 wn1uu nuwu uu uuk1wu n1v 1 1 1 1. 1 1 1. 1 1 1. 1 11. 1 11, 11. 1 11. 1 1 1 1 UNITED STTES PATEN T CHARLES O. PELLETIER, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO N. B.

DOUGLASS, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. I

WALL-BED.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mia.- 28, 1911.

Application filed April 12, 1910. Serial No. 554,928.

of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in WVall-Beds, of which the following is a specification. I

My invention relates to wall beds or apartment beds, which beds are particularly designed for use in apartment houses and places where room must be economized, and a single piece of furnituremust as far as possible be capable of a variety of uses.

The object of the present invention is to provide a so-called wall bed which can be made to move in and out of an opening in the wall no larger, practically, than the width of the bed itself, which bed will be carried on one side of a support, the other side of the support bein provided with a mirror or other article 0% furniture, fixture or ornament, and said bedbeing disposed upright when not in use and capable of being turned out into the room'and lowered in horizontal position for use; the opening in the wall being closed both when the bed is open or when it is folded awayout of sight. Another and special object of the present invention is to provide a simple, practical form of wall bed construction capable of folding in and out of a recess, and which construction will be capable of standing up under the heavy weight carried in the form of counterweights for the bed; as sometimes these swinging structures must carry several hundred pounds of dead vweight used to counterbalance the bed and make the beds opening and closing an easy matter.

The-invention consists of the parts and the construction and combination of parts as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, having reference to the accompanying drawings, 1n which-the figure is a perspective view of the invention.

A is a suitable framework set into an opening or closet or recess 2 in the wall. I

3 is-a panel peculiarly hinged to form a reversible closure for the openin of closet, and carrying on one side a fol ing-bed 4:. This bed 4 is of anyv suitable description capable of being folded upin a vertical position in a plane parallel with one side of the panel 3 and'concealed in the closet when not in use, or to be opened out into a horizontal position in the room when itis desired to use it. I

This invention includes particularly the combination with a panel and a folding-bed, of means forhinging and reversing the panel3. The panel turns on. vertical pivots 5-6 which are arrang'edin axial line and .to one side of the vertical center of the panel, these pivots running in fixed parallel respective channels or guides 78 in the top of the casing A and in the floor. Ifdesired, these pivots 5-6 may carry anti-friction rollers. The entire weight of the panel and bed is carried on these pivots 5-6.

In order to maintain the pivots and panel always vertical'and guide the turning movements of the panel when moving the bed in and-out of the closet, I provide the upper and lower links 9-10, each of these links having an end pivoted, respectively,

.. to the top and bottom of the panel and proximate to the vertical center thereof,'as shown at 1112, and the other ends of the links pivoted to the closet frame and floor adjacent to the corner of frame A, as shown at 13-44. Thus it will be seen that while the pivot points 1113 and 12-14 remain .always at a fixed distance from one another, the pivots or pintle members 5'6 are free to slide transversely of the door opening in the channel guides or grooves 78. These guides 7-8 are made to extend far enough at top'and bottom to accommodate the pintles 5---6 when the panel 3 and'links 910 are all in approximately the same plane and the bed inside the closet; in which case the pivots 1112 would be between the pivots 56.' Likewise the channels 7--8 extend far enough toward pivots 1314 so that when'panel 3 is reversed and the'bed exposed to the outside, and the panel 3 and links 9-10 are again in approximately the same plane, the

. pintles 56.will be between pivot points 11 and 13, and 12 and 14. Whenever the panel 3 is turned in to conceal the bed, or

reversed to expose it in operative position,

said panel and links 9--10 and guides 7-8 are all approximately in the same plane. 3

From the foregoing the operation is manifest. The panel and bed swing 'out into the room, as they are forced 'to do when the panel .is opened,.by the movement of the pivots 5-6 in the guides 7 -8; the panel 3 traveling again back into the plane of the doorway or closet opening as the pivots 5-6 pass inside pivots 11-12 and approach the pivots 13-1&. In swinging the bed back into the closet the operation is reversed.

This is substantially a vertical means of hanging a heavy bed, because all the weight is borne directly on the pivots 5-6; and these pivots and their supporting guides may be made very strong and rigid.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The combination with a wall having a closet space, of a panel member adapted as a closure for said space, said panel memher having top and bottom pivots slidably mounted in fixed parallel guides, and links having one end pivoted adjacent to one end of said guides and approximately in the plane of the guides, and the other end of the links pivoted to the panel, said guides extending to both sides of the vertical central plane of the panel, and said links cooperating with said guides to reverse the panel as the latter is turned on the links.

2. The combination with a wall having a closet space and a frame therefor, of a panel adapted as a closure for said space, top and bottom fixed guides extending cross-wise of said space and each side of the vertical central plane of the frame, top and bottom pivots on the panel, movable in said guides from one side past the center to the opposite side, and reversing llnks pivoted to the frame and to the panel cooperating with said guides to reverse the panel.

esspaa 3. A reversible wall attachment consisting of a door structure having pivots at top and bottom, the surrounding fixed framework inclosing an opening in and out of which said door structure is movable, said door structure being free from the fixed framework along the vertical edges of the same, top and bottom fixed guides extending cross-wise of the framework each side of the vertical central plane thereof, and reversing links having one end pivoted at top and bottom to the framework and ad jacent to one side thereof, the other end of said links pivoted respectively at top and bottom of the door structure and adjacent to the vertical center thereof.

i. In a reversible wall attachment, the combination of a panel having eccentric alined vertical pivots and turnable in an opening in the wall, transverse fixed guides for said pivots, said guides extending from one side of the frame past the vertical cen tral plane thereof, to the other side, and reversing links each having one end pivoted to a fixed support, one of said links having its other end pivoted to the top of the panel and near the center thereof, and the other of said links pivoted to the bottom of the panel and near the center thereof.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES O. PELLETIER Witnesses:

H. B. STEARNS, Crms. F. MOREL. 

